Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:33:52 -0500
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/20] x86_64: 64bit PIC SMP trampoline
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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:27:10AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > that long mode is supported.  Asking if long mode is implemented is
> > down right silly but we have traditionally had some of these checks,
> > and they can't hurt anything.  So when the totally ludicrous happens
> > we just might handle it correctly.
> 
> Well, it is silly, and it is 50 lines of dense assembly. can we get
> rid of it or get it shared with bootup version?
> 

Hi Pavel,

Last patch in the series (patch 20)  already does that. That patch just
puts all the assembly at one place which everybody shares. 

I know it is bad to introduce and delete your own code, but I kept that
patch as last patch as all the other patches have got fair bit of testing
in RHEL kernels and I wanted to make sure that if last patch breaks something
problem can be isolated relatively easily.

Thanks
Vivek
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